ABSTRACT
This section consists mainly of critical passages from Dr Johnson’s Life of Dryden, published in midsummer 1779 in the third of his ten volumes (1779–81) of Prefaces Biographical and Critical to the Works of the English Poets. See supra, Introduction, pp. 15–7. The text is substantially that of 1783; page references are to Lives of the English Poets (1905), ed. G. B. Hill.
